It's a mad, mad, mad, mad and crazy (UK) world!

Here, in the mad old, bad old world that calls itself the (Dis) United Kingdom, our beloved leaders, the Great Labour Government - sorry the Blair
Dictatorship, has decided to bring in tough new laws to combat the rising surge of drunken, loutish behaviour.

The fact that they are introducing a law that enables even the most timid of binge drinkers to indulge their 'habit' all day and all night [if need
be], seems to have escaped them!

Haha, this Law sums up to me what the Governments plan for drunken yobbery and crime is - if you can't beat them, turn them all into extreme versions
of themselves and hope they self destruct.

I think I could forgive almost all of this governments faults at some point, except for their child like naievety when it comes to community level
crime and the yobbish, "pub culture" society it's bred but can't control.

Originally posted by Jonna
In Trenton, NJ it is illegal to discard any half eaten pickles into the street.

My question is what about whole ones?

I feel...violated. I should have every right to discard half-eaten pickles.

How do they measure these pickles? What if it's only 1/4 eaten? Or 2/3?

In Fargo, you'll be pleased to know that:

It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on; and

One may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place. One has to wonder...if one
wears a hat whilst dancing, and then falls asleep with shoes still on...is that begging for a life sentence?!

On a more serious note...

With all the past history of drunkenness leading to criminal activity in the UK, this current law is just...insane. I can't think of a word to
describe it, really.

Profit always comes before wellbeing of citizens, apparently

Edit: Wait a sec though. Are they trying to simply regulate what's already happening illegally? If so, I can understand the logic, however
misguided it may appear. You know?

Fine there ought to be laws to protect the rights of every human however this law is being abused by so many using it as a cover to sue others with.
Why should this one law stop schools having sports day, conker matches being played and kids generally having fun without the body or adults that have
legal responsibilty being feared of sued therefore they stop the activity (yes that does not make grammatical sense but I cannot be bothered to change
it :p). This is behind all the bureaucracy, red tape and health and safety cases.

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